Migrating to 8.8

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This section discusses the changes that you need to be aware of when migrating your application to Elasticsearch 8.8.

See also What’s new in 8.12 and Release notes.

Breaking changes

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There are no breaking changes in Elasticsearch 8.8.

Deprecations

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The following functionality has been deprecated in Elasticsearch 8.8 and will be removed in a future version. While this won’t have an immediate impact on your applications, we strongly encourage you to take the described steps to update your code after upgrading to 8.8.

To find out if you are using any deprecated functionality, enable deprecation logging.

Cluster and node setting deprecations

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Deprecate cluster.routing.allocation.type

Details
The cluster.routing.allocation.type setting is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.

Impact
Discontinue use of the cluster.routing.allocation.type setting.